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Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds.
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds. The zine is laid out on a floral sheet.
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds. The zine is laid out on a floral sheet. The back of the zine reads, How is life different now, from day to day? What is emotional stability like? What is it like to be present in your body? What is it like to be in relationships of care?
A hand holding a copy of Surprisingly OK, open to its title page.
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds. The zine is being held in a hand against a floral background.
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds. The zine is shown from above, with a hand holding it, to show that it's a big long beefy zine!
Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels like: a risograph-printed zine on yellow paper, with an illustration of a creature licking its wounds. Six copies of the zine are laid out on a blue blanket.

Surprisingly OK: What Healing Trauma Feels Like (print)

By Lee Arden
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This zine is about what feels like to heal, slowly but surely, from complex trauma. It’s not a how-to guide, more of an exploration of questions like: What is emotional stability like? What is it like to be present in your body? What is it like to rest? What is it like to be in relationships of care? How do things feel different now, from day to day, after so much time and work and healing? It focuses throughout on how the process of healing can help you better live out my values of community and solidarity, and touches on topics like sobriety and recovery, transition, somatic practice, antiracism, and the importance of weird art.

I did my best to write something that would have been helpful for me to read ten years ago, when I started this work, and I hope it helps you along your way too.

It’s a big hefty zine! 18K words, 72 pages, half-letter size, took me like three years to write.

Riso-printed cover with beautiful illustration by Fruitblush.

This listing is for a physical copy, you can buy a PDF version here.

Weight 100 g
Dimensions 6 × 9 × 0.3 in
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Category: print, published by sheer spite
Tags: c-ptsd, care, cptsd, healing, lee, mental_health, ptsd, recovery, somatics, therapy, trans, trauma, zine

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